Cultural visit to doi Suthep Buddhist Temple Chiang Mai

Please Pray for the Buddhist's of Thailand, that they will see that God can offer them so much more than thier idols and rules. That there eyes will see signs and visions of the love that God has for them.

Dancers outside the temple, people throw money into the dish for 'extra' blessings

Buddhist's on tour - they come and visit temples to gain experience

after praying before we entered the temple, we found the amazing gold statues etc.  The high peak represents the stages in which they go to reach Nivarna - a place of 'nothingness', which all Buddhist try to reach through good deeds, and following the rules (commandments) of Buddha

The very large, steep and long staircase - lots of fun to climb! With amazing things to find at the end

A 'mini' temple were a buddhist monk sits and blesses each buddhist vistor

children join the 'monkhood' at a young age, after paying alot of money.  It is the ultimate thing to do as a parent,  to have your son join for at least one year.  (did you know that their are buddhist nun's as well?)

The amazing view from the temple, on a clear day you can see all of chiang mai and beyond

happy birthday Shalese! Random photos of Chiang Mai




Cook eggs in the hotsprings, by hanging a small grass basket off a hook in the hot springs, yummy!

Songkran festival - Thai new years celebration.  Buddhist Monks sprinkle water for a blessing of prosperity, but it has turned into a huge display of water fights on the streets of Thailand and some other Asian countries

We were invited by our language teacher to join her church to celebrate Easter.  They met at the local dam for a dawn service, then a boiled easter egg hunt (all in Thai!).  Thai people dont celebrate Easter with Chocolate Easter Eggs

This elderly man was 'teaching' pete about the Wai - the polite way to bow when greeting a Thai person

Songkran festival fun

Finally found something to roast, a whole fresh chicken. Nice Easter Dinner

                                            One of our Thai lessons (sorry its sideways?)

                                                                Transport -  varieties galore

The tables where we wait for the children after school. I love hanging out with God here after we drop the kids off in the morning.

                             Shalese's kindy class had an excursion on her bithday at a pottery place

                     Jackson's visted us on thier way through to Nairobi - Rod works for World Vision

                     Shalese's morning surprise at breakfast, Mum and Dad made a 'banner for breakfast'

                                                 Shalese's class singing happy birthday

                                                                       Fish foot spa

                                        Sharing left over cake and presents with family outside school

                                                   Shalese had a small party with her class


Sorry for the random photos, having trouble downloading the photos in an order I would like.  But 'you will get the picture:>'

Our Thai Home

This is the rest of the house, came fully funished. Photo taken from the kitchen doorway, and the childrens bedroom is just off the left side of photo and our bedroom is the one after the desk, And that is our house very small, but as we keep reminding ourselves, it is slightly bigger than a caravan. 

Our kitchen, fully furnished right down to spoons and forks (had to borrow some knives as Thai dont use these!

Our little Thai home

our little Thai street, with beautiful neighbours who dont mind us blundering through our Thai

Our grocery shop, (the bike came with the house as we are borrowing the lease from another familly while they are at home in Canada. Since this photo was taken we have two bikes, mine is an auto everything and we drop the kids off to school each day that way - quicker and cheaper!

School for the Children and Mum and Dad



Shalese's kindergartan class, they dont wear uniforms exept on sports day, the three younger ones are learning Thai 2wice a week



Nathan had the special priviledge of raising the flag this week, while the Thai anthem is playing in respect of the Thai king

School Office

Leanna got 100% in her spelling so we had a cake, and shared it with Jamin in Australia for his birthday

just finished thier first full day at school

Pete hard at work making flashcards for Thai language school

this is what we learnt in a one hour lesson

Pete's drawing I found on the whiteboard after his hour of practice in our study room, Mmmm how was it going today Pete?

The food stalls outside the school grounds in the afternoon, they have alot of students buying afternoon tea - very cheap 35c for a large iced juice drink